Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t6.32

v2.c27.s7.t6.32

for they fulfilled literally a duty which their supposed forefathers pertinaciously refused, and made war against every graven image. Had they even spared us a few of the monsters, the joint conceptions of the poet and the sculptor, I might have presented some specimens of griffins (gras)¹ and demons almost of a classical taste : but the love of mischief was too strong even to let these escape : the shoe was applied to the prominent features of everything which represented animation.